BuzzFeed reported that the 30-second spot, "Conservatives Anonymous," starred Amy Lindsay, an actress who has featured in such erotic titles as Secrets of a Chambermaid, and Insatiable Desires.

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1) His legal name is Rafael Edward Cruz.

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3) He won his Senate seat in 2010 without ever having been elected to public office before. Prior to that he had been appointed to the office of the Solicitor General in Texas. ​

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4) He had a minor brush with the law in 1987 when he received a ticket for underage possession of alcohol as a senior in high school. ​

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5) He has two Ivy League degrees: an undergraduate degree from Princeton, and a law degree from Harvard.

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8) His father (left) fled Cuba for the United States, worked in the oil industry and eventually became a pastor. He has made headlines for somewhat inflammatory statements, including telling an audience that President Obama should be sent "back to Kenya."

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9) He doesn't believe in climate change, an issue many Democrats have lampooned him for, in part because he leads the Senate's Space, Science, and Competitiveness Committee which oversees NASA.​ During a recent appearance on "Late Night with Seth Meyers" Cruz said "Debates on this should follow science and should follow data. Many of the alarmists on global warming, they’ve got a problem because the science doesn’t back them up."

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Cruz, an evangelical Christian running as a hard right, family values candidate in the Republican presidential primaries, was quick to pull the ad when Lindsay's filmic resume came to light.

Cruz spokesman Rick Tyler told BuzzFeed News that "[t]he actress responded to an open casting call. She passed her audition and got the job. Unfortunately, she was not vetted by the production company."

Tyler added: "Had the campaign known of her full filmography, we obviously would not have let her appear in the ad."

Lindsay, a Republican and Christian conservative, tweeted her disappointment at the ad being pulled. She reiterated to BuzzFeed that she had never done hardcore porn and had also acted in non-erotic films.